Christopher Isherwood

Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood was an English novelist.

Isherwood was born in 1904 on his familys estate close to the CheshireDerbyshire border. He was the elder son of Frank Bradshaw Isherwood, a professional soldier who fought in the Boer War, by his wife Kathleen , whose family were successful merchants. Frank Isherwood was the son of John Henry Isherwood, head of the landed gentry family of Isherwood of Marple Hall and Wyberslegh Hall, Cheshire, and a descendant of the regicide John Bradshaw. The Isherwood family estates came into their possession on the marriage of Mary Bradshaw to Nathaniel Isherwood, a feltmaker from Bolton, Lancashire, in the early 1700s.

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